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Billions more! Showtime renews hit Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti series for third season amid impressive viewership figures

By Ross Mcdonagh For Dailymail.com

Published: 19:16 EDT, 8 March 2017 | Updated: 19:54 EDT, 8 March 2017

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Looks like Bobby Axelrod and Chuck Rhoades will be stepping into the ring for round three.

Showtime has renewed Billions for a third season, Deadline confirmed on Wednesday.

The money-muddled drama only returned for its second season less than a month ago.

Billions more! Showtime has renewed its hit Damian Lewis and Paul Giamatti series for third season

'Billions continues to be a show on the rise, growing not only in audience, but in critical buzz and cultural relevance,' Showtime president David Nevins said.

'It offers a unique mix of pure entertainment with sly commentary on our current have/have-not economy. Season 2 is off to a tremendous start, and has only whetted our audience’s appetite for what will come in Season 3.'

The show sees Damian Lewis play Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod, ambitious hedge fund manager and one of the only survivors in his company following the September 11 attacks.

Paul Giamatti, meanwhile plays Charles 'Chuck' Rhoades Jr, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who does not trust Axelrod and wants to out him as a financial criminal.

On a roll: The money-muddled drama only returned for its second season less than a month ago

Fight! The show sees Damian Lewis play Bobby 'Axe' Axelrod, ambitious hedge fund manager, whole Paul Giamatti, meanwhile plays Charles 'Chuck' Rhoades Jr, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York who wants to bring him down

Complicating things is psychiatrist Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff), who started as Chuck's wife but also Axelrod's performance coach and trusted adviser — but has seen herself pushed from both men as their personal war continues.

It also stars Malin Åkerman as Lara Axelrod, the street-smart and devoted wife of Bobby, and mother of his children.

The show debuted to record numbers for the network in January 2016, and continued to bring in average audiences of more than a million each week of its 12 episode run.

While season two is only three episodes in, and viewership figures have not been as strong.

However numbers more the most recently collated episode were from February 26, which also happened to be Oscars night.

In their corner: Complicating things is psychiatrist Wendy Rhoades (Maggie Siff), who started as Chuck's wife but also Axelrod's performance coach and trusted adviser, while Malin Åkerman is Bobby's street-smart and devoted wife Lara